Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 14:28:20 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backspace = ^H Message-ID: <199703262128.OAA28716@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <E0w9vXq-00058x-00@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Mar 26, 97 09:27:26 am
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> : The idea is to stop the default from being "you've always got to > : hack this stuff on a unix box". Let's get it right. > > OK. Make the funny looking key generate 0x7f and the Delete key > generate 0x08. That's the only right thing to do. Others will > disagree, that's what makes it a religious argument. My "funny looking key" still has the ASCII standard defined word "Backspace" on it. I think what Brian wants to do is change the default erase character in FreeBSD to not need a root (and every console user) .profile or an /etc/gettytab hack to make it work by default. That way it works for root by default without the hack, and the <X] key on my VT100 works by default when I tset vt100 when I log in as root from there (and the terminal type is set by my /etc/ttys for the device). This won't affect your hacks, which will all continue to work as expected (hackishly). Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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